A pair of Cuban migrants wanted for attempted murder in Florida were apprehended with a gun after checking into a city-run Queens shelter on Thursday, according to police and sources.
Jaroscar Chavez Silva, 36, and his 30-year-old brother Roshiel Chavez Silva were on the run after a near-fatal gunshot in Orlando last month when they stepped off a bus in New York City and booked into the huge shelter at the former Creedmoor Psychiatric Hospital, according to sources.
Authorities claim that the US Marshals Service tracked down the two in the five boroughs after issuing a warrant in Florida on September 16.
Sources claim that the brothers hid in the city for several days or weeks before entering the shelter and coming under arrest.
The 105th Precinct stationhouse questioned the fugitives.
The NYPD scheduled Jaroscar Chavez Silva’s arraignment in Queens Criminal Court on two counts of fourth-degree criminal possession of a firearm.
With federal officials staring at him, he turned away from the cameras and remained silent as they escorted him into a waiting squad car.
Authorities are not charging his brother in New York, but they have turned him over to Marshals, who will extradite him to Florida.
According to federal law enforcement authorities, Jaroscar Chavez Silva crossed the US-Mexico border in March 2022 at San Luis, Arizona, and was released on his own recognizance.
We expected him to appear before an immigration judge next month.
Roshiel Chavez Silva entered the United States in May 2023 from Brownsville, Texas, and was released after asking for asylum, according to sources.
The court assigned him a date in March 2025 to present his asylum claim.
According to sources, both brothers planned to travel to Florida.
Officials with the Orlando Police Department and the Marshals Service did not reply to requests for comment.
The city has modified hundreds of buildings, including the 1,000-bed Creedmoor shelter, to withstand the current influx of migrants from the US border.
Residents and officials have protested Creedmoor and other shelters in response to rare outbreaks of violence, particularly those perpetrated by members of the deadly Venezuelan street gang Tren de Aragua, which has utilized the facilities to spark a local crime wave.
